People tend to forget that privacy, piracy, and security are all different issues. Although Christopher Calabrese (who is legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union) views the “Do Not Track” button as “a good start”, the fact that the button was introduced as early as last year has not been forgotten.

In that period, people who clicked the button (which first appeared on Mozilla’s Firefox browser) were still being tracked as a result of advertisers and tracking companies who didn’t choose to honor the system.

Web companies such as Google have presently agreed to enable the “Do Not Track” option in forthcoming browsers. Chrome, according to the Wall Street Journal, is expected to enable the button by the end of this year.

Where this road will lead to, is something that we will have to wait and watch.